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[sleigh]

Orson Scott Card on the horror of same-sex marriage.

Almost needless to say, we don't agree. Card's bottom line: same-sex marriage is the end of democracy, and justifies violent overthrow of the government. "Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn."

Marriage has only one definition, and it is in Card's personal dictionary and nowhere else.

Comments

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I used to think of Scott Card as a friend. Then he did a swan dive into the deep end of the homophobia pool.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that he's one of the (few) people whose writing I can't read anymore because my knowledge of his personality overshadows the prose.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I can't read his writing anymore, either, because I'm so appalled by the change in him. What happened to the man who opjected so strongly to the theocrats that he created the Secular Humanist Revival Meeting?

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there was any water in that pool, either.